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  • You can add text-to-speech voices to Windows 10 through your PC's Settings app.
  • Once you've added a text-to-speech voice to Windows, you can use it in programs like Microsoft Word, OneNote, and Edge.
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Microsoft has a text-to-speech feature built into a number of Windows programs, including Microsoft Office, the Edge web browser, and OneNote.

By default, the voices for your computer's current language are already installed. But if you need to install a second language, or if additional voices are released for your primary language, you can install them as well.

The text-to-speech voices for all Microsoft apps are installed in the Settings app. Here's how to find and add them to Windows.

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How to add text-to-speech voices in Windows 10

1. Click the Start button in the bottom-left, and then click the Settings icon, which looks like a gear.

2. In Settings, click 'Time & Language.'

© Dave Johnson/Business Insider You can find your language settings in the Time & Language section. Dave Johnson/Business Insider

3. In the navigation pane on the left, click 'Language.'


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4. Click 'Add a preferred language' and then scroll through the list until you see the language you want to add. Click it, and then click 'Next.' It'll be installed.

© Dave Johnson/Business Insider Use the Language page to add new languages. Dave Johnson/Business Insider

5. After it's installed, select it in the list of languages and click 'Options.'

© Dave Johnson/Business Insider Use the Options button to add new language packs to Windows. Dave Johnson/Business Insider

6. On the language's details page, click 'Download.' This will install the language pack, which includes the voices for this language.

How to choose a voice for text-to-speech in Windows 10

After you've downloaded voices, you can choose which one Windows uses for text-to-speech.

1. While still in the 'Time & Language' section of Settings, click 'Speech' in the left sidebar.

2. Underneath 'Speech language,' make sure it's set to the language you want text-to-speech to use.

3. Underneath 'Voices,' click the 'Choose a voice' drop-down menu and select the voice you want to use by default. You can vary its speed and preview the voice here as well.

© Dave Johnson/Business Insider Set your default voice in the Speech section of Settings. Dave Johnson/Business InsiderMac

Some programs let you pick a text-to-speech voice that's different from the one the rest of Windows uses.

In Word, for example, click 'Review' and then click 'Read Aloud.' A playback control menu will appear in the top-right of the screen. Click the gear icon to open the Read Aloud settings. Here, you can choose the voice you want to use in Word.

Mac Osx Text Speech Voices For Windows© Dave Johnson/Business Insider You can customize the voice while using 'Read Aloud' in Word. Dave Johnson/Business Insider

Mac Text To Speech For Windows

Likewise, the Edge browser has a similar option. When you choose 'Read aloud' from the three-dot menu, 'Voice options' appears at the top of the page. Click it to change voices.

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VoiceOver

VoiceOver is a full function screen reader somewhat similar to using JAWS. It reads all elements of the window and uses specific keystrokes and trackpad swipes to interact with menus and the contents of programs. It was designed for people who are blind so it may be too feature rich for people just wanting to read text in a document. The hotkey for starting VoiceOver for all Mac version since OS 10.5 is Command+F5. Advent 6441 drivers download.

VoiceOver will not read in Microsoft Office for Mac or in Adobe Acrobat Reader for Mac. Comparable programs that VoiceOver will work in are Pages (an Apple word processor) and Preview (the default PDF viewer for Mac). More information can be found at
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/.

TTS

Mac OS X also has a Text to Speech Option which will read selected text when the user presses a user defined Shortcut Key. The text to speech option also works in the Apple Calculator to make it self voicing. It is a simpler option than VoiceOver to use for reading e-texts for people with learning disabilities.

  1. To start, open the System Preferences panel under the Apple icon and click on Dictation and Speech.
  2. Select the Text to Speech tab
  3. Check the option “Speak selected text when the key is pressed
  4. Click the Set Key option
  5. Choose one modifier key — Command, Control, Option, or Shift — plus one other key of your choice
  6. Then click OK

Now each time you type this key combination, your Mac will read aloud any text you have selected. To stop the speech, type the same key combination again.

The default hotkey for TTS is Option+Escape. You can adjust the voice and speech rate in the Dictation and Speech options in System Preferences.

Selecting a Different Reading Voice

Alex is the default reading voice on the Mac OS. It is an incredibly realistic voice but there are other options for text to speech voices in Mac. Mac OS has a large number of high quality voices available from Nuance in many languages and dialects. To access these voices do the following.

  1. Open the Apple menu and select System Preferences
  2. Open Dictation and Speech
  3. Click on the System Voice combobox and click on Customize
  4. Check the checkbox for the voices you wish to install and click OK

The additional voices will take some time to download. Each file is around 200 megabytes. If you install voices for different languages it will also download additional files Mac will need to support those languages. You probably do not want to download more voices than you will use.

Creating MP3's with a Mac

Books2Burn is a free Text-To-Speech MP3 creation program for the Mac OS X Leopard. It can use the high quality Alex voice to create MP3's that you can load onto your iPod. This program has not been tested by our office yet but our understanding is that it will only open text files. You may need to cut and paste the text you want for the MP3 in the user interface.

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For more details about Apple and Mac Accessibility visit:
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/